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The Battalion
Page 3 • Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Resolution revolution
Students focus on self-improvements y relationships as a new year dawns
By Tori Foster
THE BATTALION
When 2004 began to knock at Lindsey Simon’s door, she said
[she began to put some thought into what her New Year’s resolu
tion would be. After much deliberation Simon said she has made
the most important resolution she has ever made and directed it
[to the primary person in her life: her boyfriend, Neil.
As Father Time rings in a new year, many people are tilled
I with an overwhelming feeling of rebirth and a sense of renewal.
Not only is it a time for parties and late nights, it is the time to
make the infamous New Year’s resolution. While New Year's res
olutions tends to be promises made easily in the excitement ot a
new beginning, many people quickly find out that their vows of
good intentions fall to the wayside as they become victims of
their own temptations.
"My resolution is to let my
boyfriend know that 1 love him and to
be a better friend to him,” said
Simon, a junior general studies
k major. "Somewhere around the end
| of December 1 started to realize that
1 may have been making my
boyfriend feel left out in my life.”
Simon said the rigors of school and work helped her realize
that her boyfriend was taking the brunt of her bad moods.
“He saw me in my good moods but he was also the one around
to see the bad ones,” Simon said. “1 look back on that and I’m so
sorry for all the things I’ve said throughout the past year. I want
to make a new start this year and not take for granted what I’ve
been given. I think that’s my real resolution.”
Making New Year's resolutions is nothing new to Simon, but
she said she is trying to stay away from renewing the normal
pledges that fizzle out two weeks into January.
"I make the typical T’U stop biting my fingernails,' a horrible
habit broken only by fake nails year round, or the ‘I won’t drink
sodas anymore,”’ Simon said. "It only lasts for a couple of weeks.
Then 1 drink one and the whole vicious cycle starts all over
again.”
Even though some of the previous promises she has made to
herself have failed, Simon is confident that she has the key to
sticking to this one.
“To follow through on a resolution, my advice is to make one
that is actually important to you - one that you think about and
is not only beneficial to you but to other people also,” simon said.
“A goal that will make you feel good for achieving when the year
ends.” Being the peacemaker is not always easy, and Ron Price
said he has learned this the hard way in the past year. With the
beginning of a new year, getting out of the middle of his
friends’ conflicts is his motivation for a new resolution.
“My friends come to me with their problems and I try to help
them all the time,” said Price, a senior political science major.
“However, lately I have had some friends who are not getting
along and that puts me in the middle of things. One friend tells
me one bad thing about the other and so forth. So 1 end up
spilling some info about one person to another and that usually
makes matters worse.”
After not being able to make all of his friends happy. Price has
resigned himself to not being the middleman and to keep his busi
ness to himself.
New Year’s resolutions are not a habit of Price’s, but he said
he feels one should set small goals and focus on accomplishing
those. Price said he doesn’t place much importance on New
Year’s resolutions, but he said setting small goals is a better prac
tice.
“I never really make a resolution, or if I do, I just say it that
night and forget it the next day,” Price said. “I usually don’t
:ly on one day to set a goal for myself. I think it’s better
to make a habit of waking up every day and doing
what you have to do.”
As Price begins to work at his resolution, he said
he advises his friends to work things out for themselves.
When Randi Jones returned from studying abroad in Italy, she
said she decided to work off the extra pounds from many nights
of pasta dinners. For Jones’ new year she chose the reigning king
of resolutions: to lose weight. Similar to many others, Jones said
she is ready for a diet overhaul beginning at the first of the year.
“Before I went to Italy I worked out every day and now I need
to get back into the habit,” said Jones, a junior architecture major.
“I love junk food, and I really need to eat better also.”
Jones said she completes her resolutions about half the time,
but this year she has formulated a plan and strategized about how
she is going to carry out her goals.
“I try and put mine on a bulletin board that is easy for me to
view,” Jones said. “If I see it every day I am more likely to be
successful.”
As Lindsey Simon’s boyfriend’s birthday rolls around, she
said she thinks this resolution is kind of a birthday present for
him. Looking forward to the New Year, Simon said she is excited
about starting out with a clean slate.
“The beginning of the year is the first day of a 365-day trip,”
Simon said. “It is a good time to start things because you’re start
ing a whole new semester, a whole
new year number, one that you
forget for the first two weeks
and write the previous year
on everything you date.
Maybe this isn’t even a
New Year’s resolution
after all. I just thought of
something; New Year’s resolu
tions are possibly made to
break. When you make a lifetime reso
lution, you’re really changing yourself
because you’ve realized something. I’ll
let you know the results on December 31,
2004.”
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